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WCS Mozambique (LONDON) — One of Africa’s largest protected wilderness areas has marked an entire year without finding a single elephant killed by poachers. The last time an elephant was recorded killed by a poacher […]

U.S. Navy photo by Bill Mesta/Released(MIAMI) — The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is beginning a five-month humanitarian mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America to support medical systems, strained in part, by […]

Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has released new color photos as proof that Iran was behind last week’s attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The release is part of an […]

Staff Sgt. Arielle Vasquez/U.S. Air Force(WASHINGTON) — The United States is sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East, amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The decision follows last week’s attack on two […]

CIL868/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Hours after Iran threatened to increase its enrichment levels, the Trump administration called on Tehran not to break its commitments under the Iran nuclear deal, despite the U.S. withdrawal from the accord. Iran’s […]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images(CAIRO) — Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi died on Monday after collapsing during a court hearing, Egyptian state television reported. Morsi was an Islamist who became Egypt’s first democratically-elected president in 2012. The […]

Seoul Metropolitan Government(SEOUL, South Korea) — Three times a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., women in navy blue vests with hidden camera detectors in their hands inspect public restrooms around Seoul. They are […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a new photo of their son Archie on Father’s Day. The sepia-tinted photo is the first picture of the baby with his eyes […]

iStock/artisteer(PARIS) — As the national anthem played before the U.S. women’s national team took on Thailand in the FIFA Women’s World Cup last week, the team stood in a row on the field. A camera […]

iStock(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran attempted to shoot down a U.S. drone that was surveilling the attack on one of two tankers hit in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday morning, U.S. Central Command said. The […]

iStock(PARIS) — Notre Dame Cathedral held mass on Saturday, its first since a devastating fire tore through the building two months ago on April 15. Only a small group of about 30 people attended the […]

ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam acquiesced, at least in part, to massive protests in the city this week as she announced Saturday the controversial extradition bill will be suspended […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. is looking to build an “international consensus” around Thursday’s tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman that the U.S. has blamed squarely on Iran. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of […]

iStock/AndreyPopov(WASHINGTON) — A federal court on Friday knocked down the Trump administration’s policy that allowed officials to deny abortion access to pregnant migrant teenagers in government custody. A judge had already issued a preliminary injunction […]

iStock/Sergey Sidorov(MOSCOW) — A Russian scientific institute says it has found an almost perfectly preserved head of a 32,000 year-old wolf has been found frozen in the ground in Siberia, so complete that it is […]

ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images(HONG KONG) — The streets of Hong Kong were calm and quiet Friday after days of protests over the government’s controversial proposal to change an extradition law that would allow individuals to be […]

Marilyn Nieves/iStock(CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand) — The Australian man accused of killing 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand earlier this year has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Brenton Tarrant, 28, appeared via video […]

Manakin/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday blamed Iran for the attack on two commercial tanker ships sailing in international waters in the Gulf of Oman earlier in the day. “It is the […]

ABC News(PARIS) — The Notre Dame Cathedral is opening its doors to worshipers on Saturday, marking the first time since a devastating fire tore through its halls in April. The Archdiocese of Paris announced that […]

gpointstudio/iStock(PARIS) — An anesthetist in France is accused by police of poisoning 24 patients, killing nine, allegedly in an effort to ruin the reputation of his colleagues because of personal conflicts he had with them, […]